Quotes About Cost

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

There is no such thing as a free lunch

I used to believe in freedom of speech until I had to pay my first phone bill.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

I wonder if as the bizarre becomes commonplace there is a hidden cost to the self.

Between 1918 and 1922, the country was wracked by a vicious civil war, from which the Bolsheviks would emerge victorious, and regions such as Ukraine and the Caucasus had been reconquered, but only at a terrible cost. As many as 12 million people had died, many from famine and disease.

It was quite obvious that neighborhoods and communities would be destroyed and people uprooted, but this was thought to be an acceptable cost of creating new transportation routes and facilitating urban economic development.

Relevance always comes with a price and a shelf life.

More than $7 billion a year was spent in prison construction during the 1990s. By 2012 the annual cost of maintaining prisons at all levels rose to over $60 billion.

In the mid-1990s, New York City was spending $58,000 annually per adult inmate and $70,000 for each juvenile at Rikers.[6] In 2013, the annual cost per inmate was $167,000.[7] Over the last two decades this amounts to eight to ten times what the city spends on each child in its public schools.

Moreover, in private prisons people of color are even more overrepresented than they are in federal and state prison populations. This is because private prisons contract to avoid housing the more costly elderly prisoner. They prefer the younger bodies, and so they hold more of the youth of color, the bulk of these coming in as targets of the recent "war on drugs.

Here's where my pastoral fantasy ran aground: the pound of organic butter cost six dollars and fifty cents. The ceiling for buying my way into grace was about five bucks.

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.